Opinion: How to Fight the Fictitious ‘War on Women’

Hoover Institution Research Fellow Bill Whalen on why the ‘War on Women’ rhetoric works so well for Democrats. Photo credit: Getty Images.

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I ... I ... the kids use the phrase war on women to cook us Republicans to the Destin last year's presidential election but also more recently ... in the Virginia governor's race House Republicans respond ... about Hoover Institution Research Fellow Bill Whalen joining me now ... for some advice on in in this morning's newspaper that is generating an awful lot of bias welcome now ... so the bill your op ed says that ... the Republican Shutdown play social issues like abortion fair pay that kind of thing ... embed as AIG's risk of Republicans looking weak ... that's just Republicans of liquidity to abandon the blaze under suggesting that ... in terms of the one of criminal action and help others issue ... is Canada Congress and in twenty eleven edition of the house to test a series of measures ... which define it is a very socially conservative party ... and is up to use the framework for Brock Obama to walk in twenty twelve ... voters don't care about social issues they're doesn't care about the accommodation about education ... and if Republicans that they have created this problem for themselves ... social issues complicate life of the Republican party ... and rallies Democrats so by possibly pushing for social issues as the new funding matters ... of your own ... you're ... nodding your money or on your own it and about her and it's just not star politics you another one of your suggestions in your op ed this morning was for the Republicans to nominate more women ... I you with that with that really helped though doesn't that ... kind of risk playing identity politics like Democrats didn't ... it didn't work very well into thousandeight ... and it's not worked so well in a handful of of of Senate races ... in two thousand to a two thousand and two thousand twelve ... to be this simple point ... you if Hillary Clinton is going on in two thousand sixteen ... you have to engage in what we euphemistically call comparative campaign which ... owned it and it you have to critique her on her record ... this'll be very difficult for milk candy to predict because the Senate to start attending a liquid and ... let stand ten entered into an attack from Obama ... the issue as quickly deflected into the shoes are only risks ... it is or is it because you don't like black people don't like it because he's African American ... more by doors to tackle inclusion is that no Republican candidate ... you'll be said to stop liking women as such that's why they gave Republican Boehner one of the Republican ticket Runevad ... isn't much more effective way to go after door ... I was the surprise than last year's Republican president yet it primaries sky that no one will only lead better acts came up this was the an achievement of the Obama missed ration the first term or so they said ... that Republicans never really explained what it what is ... or why they were up close to it did open them up to a lot of Chris criticism from Democrats ... I e easy easy to explain the Cioffi's platform on things like fair pay ... sets Umina candidates need to work on ... the absolute June ... the trouble of we owe to wheeze deserves get into on these issues get very quickly caught up instead ... of Chamber of Commerce vote in state and ... we're trying to offer an intellectual argument you see collapsed on August seven ... are there ... and standing is actually reading of twenty talks about his duties of a professorial ... of long winded discussion about a problem in the public just doesn't love onto ... the case of Lily but better which was the first that Brock Obama ... not by accident scientists president ... you have on one side the Democrats again after they ... recovered as long as I ... do not too affected started talking about of the logging on to its owners don't expose the company to bed practices but manager was no longer of the company ... that for business but they just didn't have this this and again Mary this ties into the problem Republicans have responded one when ... the Democrats on one side of her affections for a very emotional issues that too ... often dream of the way the Republicans has it that way too caught up in the academic side unlike side of things and ... just politically suffer from a well gotta give credit to Democrats is a very effective catchphrase worked well for him ... let's hope the Republicans are reading your op ed in this morning's paper ... movers soon Research Fellow Bill Whalen thank so much for joining us ... or